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Failure: The Blog 
August 2018
- When This Executive Was Fired, He Took Charge
- Obeying The Speed Limit Has Never Been More Fun
- London Black Cabs Helped Uber Grow
- Bette Graham Created A Product To Fix Her Mistakes
- Flamin' Hot Cheetos Had An Interesting Start
July 2018
- Fear This Instead Of Failure
- Re-Releasing Songs Created Success
- A CEO's Purposeful Mistake
- The Tardy Student And The Unsolvable Problem
- Fixing Potholes Through Graffiti
June 2018
- A Surprising Mistake In The Oxford English Dictionary
- US Army Embraces Mistakes
- Blocking A Hymn
- Eddie Shore Was Truly A Tough Guy
- [Video] Elon Musk Didn't "Pivot" He Failed
May 2018
- 8 Examples of Mental Toughness Part 2
- Necessity Turned Accessory: Allen Iverson's Sleeve
- This Doctor Has Continued To Fail
- 8 Examples of Mental Toughness
- MIT Accidentally Creates New Smelting Process
April 2018
- Johnny Cash Quit Singing Lessons
- Cruise Control Came Out of Frustration
- Time Spent Gaming Pays Off In The Navy
- Rock Around The Clock Was a Commercial Failure
- Sigmund Freud Should Have Been Discouraged
March 2018
Tom Landry’s Failure
Tom Landry, the legendary coach that led the Dallas Cowboys to many amazing season and also Super Bowl victory, had a pretty bad first year in the NFL. But he didn’t let that failure ruin his career.
Tom Landry may be known as one of the greatest coaches of all time. But his career didn’t start out that way. In fact he lost every single game this first year as head coach in the NFL!
He started out as the defensive coordinator for the Giants, opposite Vince Lombardi, which was definitely a great success from 1954 to 1960. He then became the first head coach of the Dallas Cowboys for 29 seasons, which lasted from 1960 to 1988. His career was marked with great success, but his first couple of seasons were marked with failure.
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The Cowboys had five or fewer wins for these seasons, which is definitely poor. It came as a surprise to many when in 1964, owner Clint Murchison Jr. gave a ten-year extension to Landry’s coaching contract. But this was actually a blessing, as the Cowboys went on to improve and win almost every game in the next seasons, and even a Super Bowl. Landry invented the now used and wildly popular “4-3 defense” and is hailed as one of the greatest innovators in football.
You might think someone would give up after that record, or get fired. But for coach Landry, learning from this failure was a secret to his success!
